I love history. I love reading histories and historical novels, in all shapes and sizes. From my great book of fantasy writing I discovered a lovely list made up by one of the authors about some of the best ancient books/known stories of times gone by. I was shocked to see that I have read most of them!
Beowulf
Grendel (John Gardner)
Grettirsaga
Kalevala
Histories - Herodotus
Germanica - Tacitus
Illiad - Homer
Odyssey - Homer
The Aeneid - Virgil
Code of Hammurabi
Bullfinch's Mythology
Some miscellaneous resources
The Hero with a thousand faces - Joseph Campbell
Man, Myth and Magic - Richard Cavendish
The Art of War
And that is all I can squeeze in from work.
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